OutSystems Names 2016 Innovation Award Winners for Americas

Nine companies recognized for their pioneering initiatives in digital
transformation

October 12, 2016 09:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OutSystems announced the winners of the 2016 OutSystems
Innovation Awards for the Americas. The program recognizes those
enterprises using OutSystems to enable faster application creation and
delivery to digitally transform their operations and interactions with
customers, partners and employees. Applicants were evaluated based on
the business impact, results, user adoption and experience rates, and
measureable IT benefits they achieved with their initiatives.

There were nine 2016 Innovation Award winners for the Americas:

COLLABORATION AWARD

Winner: US Acute Care Solutions for The Central Line - A brand
new collaborative portal saves physicians time and the company money.

When US
Acute Care Solutions wanted to replace its legacy portal for
physicians it looked to OutSystems for help creating a solution that
supported much greater collaboration. Five months later, the company had
a new, collaborative portal that helped the physicians complete much of
their work outside of the emergency room. Not only that, the new portal
is saving the company over a million dollars annually as the
organization rapidly expands through organic growth and acquisition.

Logitech
uses OutSystems to build new apps to help it quickly deliver new
products to market. One example of such an app is the NPI Command
Center, which offers a centralized and unique view over the entire
operation of developing and delivering a new product to the market. It
includes a collaboration and communication tool with unification of best
practices and reporting. Importantly, not only was it ready to go live
in just two weeks, today it also integrates with six different systems.

LEGACY REPLACEMENT AWARD

Winner: Estafeta for its Sistema de Operaciones Estafeta (SOE) - A
legacy system was replaced with a new mobile application, increasing
visibility and operational efficiency.

When Estafeta
needed to completely overhaul the system it used to track its shipments,
it turned to OutSystems for help. Using the OutSystems low-code
platform, the company was able to build a new operating system that
consolidated its legacy applications, standardized its processes, and
introduced a variety of new features. The result was greater visibility,
better user experiences, and significant cost savings.

When Americares
needed new pharmaceutical inventory and distribution tracking systems to
better respond to emergencies and improve supply chain management, it
partnered with OutSystems. The foundation was quickly able to replace
its error prone legacy system with a new Field Inventory Tracker
application. The new app is a flexible, intuitive, and robust system
that allows AmeriCares to easily and accurately receive, manage, ship,
and report on its products. As a result, Americares is better positioned
to respond to emergency disasters and to measure the impact it’s having
on saving lives using the donated medicines it receives.

ROI AWARD

Winner: CP Kelco for its Strategic Platform for Enterprise
Application Challenges - Building four applications on OutSystems
saved CP Kelco millions of dollars.

CP
Kelco needed an integrated development platform to quickly build a
variety of applications across its organization. Using OutSystems, the
company was able to build applications much more cost effectively than
off-the-shelf solutions. In fact, to date OutSystems has allowed CP
Kelco to develop and deploy four applications, helping the company to
avoid millions of dollars in software purchases, and maintenance and
programming expenses, while also cutting development time by between 50
and 90 percent.

SCALABILITY AWARD

Winner: College Bound for Bridgit - Aimed at helping more high
school students attend college, this software went from 2,200 to 10,500
users in just five months.

College
Bound built Bridgit on OutSystems. This online, mobile-optimized
software bridges the gap between college acceptance and attendance,
helping to ensure that a greater number of high school students go on to
attend college. The software stands out for its impressive scale up. In
2016, the tool scaled from 2,200 users to 10,500 across ten states. And
it accomplished this in just five months. College Bound projects that
the tool will scale to reach more than 20,000 users in 2017. Sense
Corp was instrumental in designing and building this software.

SPEED AWARD

Winner: Micromain for its Project “Amy” - A modern,
mobile-ready maintenance management system built in less than five
months.

MicroMain’s
maintenance management system was built on an outdated platform and
needed an overhaul. After several failed attempts at developing the
project through traditional means, MicroMain decided to partner with
OutSystems and was able to deliver a beta version to its customers in
less than five months. The company had a modern, mobile-ready,
cloud-based solution for its customers much faster than it anticipated. DoltLean
was a key development partner for this project.

TIME TO VALUE AWARD

Winner: Randstad Brazil for its eTalent Recruitment Solution - Automated
eTalent solution, built in two months, allowed four HR consultants to
source and vet 75,000 candidates.

Randstad
Brazil needed a new eTalent recruitment solution to help it fill
hundreds of temporary positions for the 2016 summer games in Rio de
Janeiro. Using OutSystems, it built a solution in just two months that
allowed a team of four HR consultants to source and vet 75,000
candidates, interview 7,000 of them, and ultimately fill all 1,500 open
requisitions. Partner ÁgilBr
helped develop the solution.

USER EXPERIENCE AWARD

Winner: Georgia Tech for its Shared User Management System (SUMS)
- A new management system gives researchers easy access to hundreds
of millions of dollars in facilities and equipment.

The Institute
for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) at Georgia Tech developed
its Shared User Management System (SUMS) to help it manage the $400
million of lab equipment it has spread across numerous research
buildings and multiple campuses. With OutSystems, it was able to create
SUMS in just 15 weeks, transforming the way that IEN tracks and manages
its lab equipment and allowing the Institute to increase the efficiency
of its research while expanding access to its facilities.

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